Stories
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A brief history of ventilation
As ventilators continue to play an important part in helping very ill coronavirus patients, medical historian Dr Lindsey Fitzharris traces their development from the first attempts at mouth-to-mouth resuscitation through centuries of medical crises.
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History of condoms from animal to rubber
Come on a journey from the first recorded condoms in the 16th century to the modern female condoms in the 1990s – and everything in between.
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Getting under the skin
Before the invention of X-ray in 1895 there was really only one way to accurately study the human body, and that was to cut it open.
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Would you like to buy a dinosaur?
Two remarkable letters and a drawing of a plesiosaur by Mary Anning offer a tantalising portal into the exciting world of fossil hunting and discovery of the 1800s.
Catalogue
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Galen, Vesalius, da Vinci - anatomists / William H. Washburn.
Washburn, William H.Date: 1916- Archives and manuscripts
Autograph letters and notes, signed (except no. 22)
Serres, Étienne Renaud Augustin, 1786-1868.Date: 1815-1864Reference: MS.7615/1-22Part of: Serres, Antoine Étienne Renaud Augustin (1781-1868), physiologist and comparative anatomist- Books
Robert Friedrich Wetzel (1898-1962) : Anatom - Urgeschichtsforscher - Nationalsozialist / Philip Scharer.
Scharer, Philip.Date: 2014- Archives and manuscripts
English Language Autograph Letters: Kidd-Kramer
Date: 1794 - 1953Reference: MS.8898- Books
The afterlife of the Leiden anatomical collections : hands on, hands off / by Hieke Huistra.
Huistra, Hieke, 1982-Date: 2019